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Tiffany Chemical Company, 

"3 9 G> I (Incorporated), 

Manufacturing, Analytical and 
Counseling 

Leather Trade Chemists, 

Proprietors and Dealers in 

Standard Preparations used in the Manufacture of 

Leather. 



TRADE MARK. 
Patented U. S. October 13, 1879. Renewal February 21, 
Registered in Great Britain, February 24, 18S0. 
European Patents applied for. 



Principal Offices %^, it 

21 Spruce Street, New York, 

New England Office, 102 High St., Boston. 



Agencies in London, Berlin, Paris, Canada, Pittsburgh, St. Louis 

and San Francisco. 



Laboratories and Works, New York. 
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Analytical and Research Work. 

The Tiffany Chemical Company has as associates, well-known scientists, professional 
chemists, and experienced experts, who have for several years devoted careful attention to the 
details of leather manufacture, making this subject a specialty, and having thereby accu- 
mulated valuable information, can render practical service to the trade. 

When you desire to know the chemical laws governing the making of leather, the quality 
or correct combination of any materials used for that purpose, or how to prevent and utilize 
waste, confer with us in confidence, and on all such subjects we will give you practical advice 
for a reasonable charge. 

We have had ten years experience in this kind of Leather Trade Research and 
Analytical Work, and, with this long practice and perfectly equipped laboratories, are 
able to discover the cause of imperfect processes, the tanning value of barks, extracts, alums 
or other tannages, the purity of water, oils, etc., and to report expeditiously and accurately upon 
them, and can refer you to many customers whom we have benefited in this way. We are 
also experts in court, patent or other cases pertaining to leather manufacture, and as such our 
testimony has been repeatedly accepted ; a special circular relating to this work and containing 
further details, will be mailed on application. 

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Manufactured Articles. 

Aside from our analytical work, we are the proprietors a nd manufactu re rs of < many valu- 
able preparations now largely used. Each grade of our goods is always of uniform quality. 
To protect our customers from fraudulent and inferior imitations, our patented Trade Mark 
is affixed to each package. We originate, and do not copy. 

During the past ten years Mr. Walton C. Tiffany, of this Company, has made many 
exhaustive experiments both in the laboratory and tanneries. He has invented and per- 
fected our Improved Bate, Tan Sweetener, Sigg, Blacks, and other articles. The use 
of these inventions, together with the letters patent, trade marks, caveats, etc., protecting the 
same, are the property of this Company only. 

Our Bleaching Tan Sweetener, at a cost of but a few cents per vat, keeps sweet 
and free from mold and decoloration all vegetable Tan liquors. 

We have also a Skin and Hide Preserver, to keep depilated and untanned skins 
or hides from spoiling while awaiting tannage. We have also Preservatives for skins or hides 
in the hair and preparations for Softening Flint and Sun-dried Hides and Skins. 

Our Skin Cleaners for cheaply removing grease, tallow, dirt and such foreign sub- 
stances from tanned and untanned skins or hides are most effective, easy and absolutely 
safe m application, and for Sheep Skins cheaper than naphtha or any other process. 

Our Egg Yolk Substitute is the cheapest and most perfect ever invented. It has stood 
the practical test of trade use, and has all the essential qualities of natural egg yolk. Keeps 
perfectly at all seasons, and contains no salt or other adulterations. Payment for y 6 salt at Egg 
Yolk prices is not economical. Every ounce of our "Egg Yolk Substitute" is useful. 

We have also other preparations of value. (Send for further information.) 



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The Improved Bate. 

This Bate is used at the present time in some of the largest establishments in nearly every 
State of the Union, also in Canada, Great Britain, Australasia, Germany and France. 

It is the only Bate of its kind in the world which is safe in its action on all kinds of hides 
and skins. COSTS IN USE i CENT PER HIDE OR 2 CENTS PER DOZEN SKINS. 

Our Bate completely removes the lime, and the grease, dirt, oil, fine hairs and other non- 
tannable substances work out freely on the beam. All the tannable substance is left clean, unin- 
jured and of natural strength. For this reason the tan liquors strike more evenly, and it has also 
been noticed that greater weight, more substance, and more durable leather of better color is 
made, than with the putrescent bates so long used. 

The leather when tanned takes all dyes and colors evenly. 

The improved Bate is clean, dissolves easily in water, and is as safe as water. The solution 
is unaffected by thunder showers or changes of weather, therefore requires less careful watching. 
No change in the arrangement of the tannery or usual methods is required. Our Bate is used in 
the same manner as the old bates ; it is, however, quicker in action and less troublesome. It is 
solid, compact in bulk, and is received by all forwarding lines at lowest rates. 

The lined box shown below was invented and caveated by our Mr. Tiffany, to whom 
a patent was finally allowed July 14, 1888, and this Company has the sole right to 
use it on Bate, and also the exclusive right to manufacture and sell this solid Bate. 



'Packed in 4=lb. -patented 
paper boxes. So marked 
thai pounds or half pounds 
may be cut off without 
trouble of weighing Al- 
ways ready, and convenient 
for use. It weighs about 
100 lbs. to the cubic foot. 




Contains all the operative 
properties of the old bates, 
without any of their objec- 
tionable qualities. 

One 'hound abates on nnn. 
average 35 yo-lb. hides, or 

100 g-lb. calf, or 2,0 dozen 

sheep or goat skins. 



Directions for using Tiffany's Improved Solid Bate. 

Knock out the head of a forty-five (45) gallon barrel {usual size), set on end; drive a wooden spigot 
into it a foot from the bottom. In cold weather keep near a stove or boiler; in warm weather and at 
all times, keep at about 70 degrees F. 

With a knife shave 4 pounds of Bate into a bucket of warm water ; rub these shavings between 
the thumb and fingers under water, when they will partially dissolve. 

Pour this mixture into the barrel, and fill the barrel with warm water {about 75 F.) Stir all 
together from time to time, keeping the zuater warm {at a te?nperature of about 70 F.), especially in 
cold weather, and when first mixed let it remain three days before using. Do not draw from the 
barrel below the spigot, 'as that which remains makes that which is added afterwards dissolve more 
quickly. At all tunes, stir tip the solution well before drawing off the desired amount. 

After drawing down to the spigot, add 3 pounds of the Bate in the same way to the stock barrel 
and fill it with warm water. It is then only necessary to let it stand 12 hours before using, and so 
on from time to time. 

By proceeding in this manner, 11 gallons of the solution will equal about 1 pound of Bate, which 
will abate the number of hides or skins given above. Average skins or hides require 12 hours to abate. 

The vat in which the hides or skins are to be abated, may be filled as usual with clean warm 
■water. The desired quantity of dissolved Bate drawn from the stock barrel is stirred into this vat, and 
mixed therein, and after standing for the first time for 24 hours is ready for use. 

To keep the abating vat clean it is daily stirred, partly run off. Clean warm water and dissolved 
Bate from the stock barrel is then added, and after the first ti?ne it is ready for use in 3 hours, and 
so on from day to day. Keep solution in vat at 70 F. while abating. 

By following these directions exactly success is insured. 

Samples free by mail to any part of the world. Four pounds expressed, charges paid, to 
any part of the United States or Canada for $1.50. Sold in 4-lb. packages, in any quantity. 
or 25 packages in 100-lb cases. For Morocco we make a special grade. Full 
directions and all information sent to applicants. 



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Standard Blacks, Iron Liquors, Etc; 

We manufacture these well-known Blacks and Iron Liquors upon Mr. Tiffany's formulas, 
which he, practically knowing trade requirements, has been perfecting for io years. They 
are made in large quantity by exact rule from the purest ingredients. We thus secure 
uniformity in quality and strength, and avoid smut, hard grain, and poor or fading color 
so often produced where different kinds and strengths of vinegar, acids, iron, etc., are 
used, with the rust and dirt and other impurities they contain. Our Standard Iron Liquor 
when filtered is free from all particles that might blemish the grain, and every barrel of it is 
carefully tested, of uniform strength and free from uncombined acids, before leaving our works. 
The purchaser has only to weaken it with water from one-third to two-thirds. The color is a 
jet-black, or a deep Prussian blue, as required. These Blacks are much desired and largely 
used for imitation' French glaze, Dongola, Harness and all Grain Leather. 

In the tray with the usual mixtures our Blacks have no superior, and as a brush black, 
strike evenly and set well. They are applied in the same way as the ordinary black. The color 
is strong and lasting, and the grain will take a fine bright polish or glaze, and remains soft 
while stored. Can be used in any climate, and not injured by freezing. 

These Blacks are now used in some of the largest leather-dressing establishments in 
the country. We sell our Standard Black, by the barrel, at 1 6 cents per gallon ; but as it is 
generally used weakened one-half or more, with water, the actual cost as used is but 8 cents or 
less per gallon. Suitable discounts for large orders, carload or half carload lots delivered 
free; samples free. Quadruple strength for export* 

We also manufacture Flesh surface Blacks for Calf Kip, etc., fine Harness Finish, 
Kid Glazes and Seasonings, etc.; and also the finest combined or Oil Stuffings, Dressings, 



etc. ; cheap, effective and reliable, showing no white spots or blemishes on surface at any season. 

Standard Siggs. 

These are perfect substitutes for the offensive and unclean urine sigg so long used and 
for the sodas and other caustic, injurious and worthless articles made to replace it. 

Our cheap, reliable, clean and inodorous siggs have continuously given entire satisfaction 
wherever used. They remove the grease, mellow the grain, and make colors more permanent, 
and are suitable for all kinds of Grain Leather. 

We make several grades, suiting any class of stock. Sold in powder, paste or in a 
solution. Five pounds of the paste or powder or five gallons of the solution stirred into a 
barrel of clean water will keep well at all seasons. The strength may be increased or 
diminished to suit any stock, and all grades may be used exactly as the old urine siggs 
are applied, with any mordant or black. For fine grades of leather, such as glazed kid, 
Dongola, etc., it is best to sigg the stock first, before using logwood and Black Strikers. 

It costs about $\ per barrel as_ used, sold in cases, kegs or barrels. Samples of either 
kind free by mail. 

A Perfect Barkometer. 

We have recently secured patents protecting our invention of such an instrument for 
testing bark and other tanning liquors, extracts, etc. Send for descriptive circulars. 



By special arrangements our goods are received by all forwarding lines at low rates, and 

our location affords extra facilities for despatching them prorrjptly. Prices will be given 
including delivery charges if desired, and suitable discounts for large or continued orders. 
We shall in future, as in the past, originate for and offer to the trade, reliable improvements. 






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